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In a rare live press conference, Vladimir Putin signaled Russia’s next move, declaring Krasnoarmeysk fully secured and now a key “bridgehead” for future offensives. He said the position enables the army to advance wherever the General Staff decides. With Trump, Zelensky and NATO following every step, Putin even invited foreign journalists to witness the situation on the ground.

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00:00May I ask a question? Interfax news agency, Lana Samsonia. Over the weekend, you visited
00:07one of the command posts of the Joint Group of Forces and focused on the capture of the
00:11city of Krasnormaisk. It is currently under the complete control of the Russian Armed Forces.
00:18Why is this city so important? This city has been and continues to be held in high regard
00:25by both the Ukrainian side and the Russian Armed Forces. It truly is of particular importance
00:36because, uh, this city is not just a large infrastructure facility connected to an entire
00:42network of means of communication with the region. But, uh, the most important thing is
00:54that, overall, speaking in military terms, it is a good springboard for achieving all
01:00the objectives set at the beginning of the special military operation.
01:09That is, from here, from this springboard, from this sector, the Russian Army is easily
01:14able to advance in all directions, which the general staff considers the most promising.
01:19That's precisely why it's always been designated as a priority by the Ukrainian side in the
01:29Donetsk People's Republic. And by our armed forces, too, along with a number of other Ukrainian
01:36outposts. And it was also one of the most powerful Ukrainian outposts. And today, it's entirely in the
01:45hands of the Russian army, as the commander of the sender group recently reported.
01:53This question apparently arises because there are still doubts about whether this is actually true.
02:00Well, if anyone has doubts, we've already discussed this, and I've already proposed it.
02:05And what did I propose?
02:07You're foreign and even Ukrainian colleagues, please, we're ready to grant Ukrainian journalists
02:15the right to visit the city of Krasnormaisk and see for themselves.
02:24What's happening there, and who really controls that town?
02:27I remember when we did this a few weeks ago, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a warning,
02:36saying that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was categorically opposed, and began threatening
02:41journalists, and so on.
02:45But right now, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nothing to do with this,
02:49since the city is entirely in the hands of the Russian armed forces.
02:53Of course, there are certain levels of danger, given that there are close-in areas and drones
03:02are constantly in the air, but our Russian war correspondents are working.
03:13I'm sure there are people in the West who honestly fulfill their professional duties and
03:17are ready to objectively inform their listeners and readers about what's happening in the world,
03:22including in Ukraine.
03:29Therefore, we will do everything to ensure their safety, but we are ready to take them to all the
03:34districts of Krasnormaisk.
03:39The same applies to Kupiansk.
03:42Hello, Vladimir Vladimirovich, regarding Kupiansk.
03:45They simply didn't allow it, as Alexander Yershlyev said yesterday, when Zelensky stated that the
03:49Ukrainian armed forces are still in Kupiansk, what do you think he meant by that, you should
03:53ask him, because Kupiansk has been in our hands for several days now, or rather, for several weeks now.
04:01It seems to me that the Ukrainian leadership is currently preoccupied with other matters than
04:06the situation in the combat zone.
04:10In fact, it seems like they live on another planet.
04:15Besides, being constantly on the move, um, begging for money, they probably have no time for current
04:22affairs, neither in the economy nor at the front.
04:25As for Kupiansk, Kupiansk consists of two parts, one part, the larger one, the main part of the city
04:34center, is on the right bank of the river.
04:40The smaller part is on the left bank.
04:46Russian troops control both the right bank part entirely and the left bank part, also entirely.
04:55And a little further south along the river, there is another settlement called Kupiansk-Uzlova.
05:05There are, I think, 2,000 buildings there.
05:11There is fighting going on there.
05:13600 buildings, somewhere around 1,000 already, well, 600 to 650 in the hands of the Russian army.
05:20They are advancing.
05:21I think that in a few days we will also take this settlement, but it is a separate settlement.
05:30And besides everything else, I would like to remind you that an enemy group of 15 battalions
05:35is blocked on the left bank of the river.
05:40Ah, and Russian troops have begun to eliminate it.
05:43Alayna Nefadova, news.
05:49You will soon meet with Steve Witkoff, who came to Moscow specifically for this.
05:54In fact, the negotiation process is currently only taking place with the American side.
05:59Why are the Europeans silent?
06:00Why are they so removed from this process?
06:02Well, the Europeans are not silent.
06:04They are offended that they have been, so to speak, removed from the negotiations.
06:08But I want to point out that no one removed them.
06:11They removed themselves.
06:13After all, we had close contact with them at one time.
06:17Then they abruptly cut off contact with Russia.
06:20It was their initiative.
06:22Why did they do this?
06:27Because they've adopted the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia and, apparently,
06:32still live in these illusions, although they understand in their heads that this is long
06:37in the past, that it couldn't have happened.
06:43Ah, they've been engaging in wishful thinking all along, but they can't admit it to themselves,
06:48they don't want to.
06:50They've removed themselves from this process.
06:53That's the first thing.
06:54Second, seeing that the results today aren't to their liking, they've begun to hinder the
07:02current U.S. administration and President Trump from achieving peace.
07:11Through negotiations.
07:14They themselves have rejected peace talks and are hindering President Trump.
07:20Third, they have no peace agenda.
07:25They're on the side of war.
07:29And even when they try to supposedly make some changes to Trump's proposal, we clearly
07:34see it.
07:41All these changes are aimed at one thing.
07:44Blocking the entire peace process altogether, putting forward demands that are absolutely
07:49unacceptable to Russia, they know this, and thereby blaming Russia for
07:53curtailing the peace process, that's their goal.
08:03We see this clearly.
08:09Therefore, if they really want to return to reality, based on the situation that is developing
08:14on the ground, as I have said in such cases, then go ahead, we will allow it.
08:19Regarding Syart's statement, can I ask one more question?
08:26Syart said today that we could find ourselves in a state of war with Europe.
08:30Just today, he said that NATO, its European part, intends to bring its troops to full combat
08:34readiness by 2029, and by 2030 there is a risk of armed conflict.
08:39This is, in fact, a very serious matter, almost sensational.
08:42What is your attitude towards this?
08:44Are we preparing for something?
08:46Indeed.
08:47We are not going to war with Europe.
08:49I have already said this a hundred times.
08:51But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we are ready right now.
08:58There can be no doubt about that.
09:00The only question is what?
09:02If Europe suddenly starts a war itself, it seems to me that it will happen very quickly.
09:07This is not Ukraine.
09:11We're acting surgically with Ukraine, carefully, so that, well, it's clear, right?
09:19This isn't war in the direct, modern sense of the word.
09:25If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and does, a situation could very quickly arise
09:31in which we won't have anyone to negotiate with.
09:33Our own channel 1.
09:36Please comment on the attacks on tankers off the coast of Turkey.
09:40Just today, another such incident occurred.
09:43Well, to be honest, I haven't even received the information yet.
09:47I know that this happened.
09:49Attacks on tankers in neutral, or even not neutral, waters, but in the special economic
09:54zone of another state, a third state.
09:57This is piracy, nothing less.
09:59So, they, the Ukrainian armed forces, previously tried to strike our ports, our seaports.
10:06We responded, precisely.
10:09We did not begin these operations with such strikes.
10:13I assure you that they are much more effective and powerful.
10:17And this primarily concerned those vessels, ships that were delivering military property,
10:24equipment, and ammunition to Ukraine.
10:26And we hit exactly where we wanted, as evidenced by the secondary explosions we observed through
10:36aerial reconnaissance.
10:39But, uh, what the Ukrainian armed forces are doing now is piracy.
10:45What countermeasures can we take?
10:47First, we will expand the range of such strikes against port facilities and ships, ships calling
10:54at Ukrainian ports.
10:58First, second.
11:00If this continues, we will consider the possibility, I'm not saying we will do this, but we will
11:06consider the possibility of retaliatory measures against the vessels of those countries that
11:11are helping Ukraine carry out these hellish actions.
11:13Well, the most radical option is to cut Ukraine off from the sea, then it will be impossible
11:19for it to engage in piracy, in principle.
11:22But this is all escalating.
11:27I hope that, uh, the Ukrainian military leadership, the political leadership, and those behind them,
11:33will consider whether this practice is worth continuing.
11:38Very much.
11:40Yeah.
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